Category: Zimbabwe

06.26.2023

From the Field: News from the Latest Rhino Management Operation

The Lowveld Rhino Trust (LRT), our on-the-ground partners in Zimbabwe, manage the rhino monitoring program in Bubye Valley Conservancy, a…View Full Release »

04.24.2023

Belinda and Other Rhinos in Zimbabwe’s Bubye Valley are Thriving

It’s widely considered that seven years is the average age at which wild black rhino females give birth to their…View Full Release »

04.12.2022

Knowing What You Have: Nina’s Travel Blog

As I’ve discussed in previous blogs, the International Rhino Foundation (IRF) supports a variety of security measures for rhinos in…View Full Release »

09.04.2021

The Long Road to Gonarezhou

After nearly 30 years of absence, Critically Endangered black rhinos are being reintroduced to Gonarezhou National Park by the Gonarezhou…View Full Release »

08.13.2021

Team Rhino Stories: Impactful Returns

Michelle McTigue was interested in conservation from an early age. She participated in a school exchange program that sent her…View Full Release »

05.21.2021

A Second Chance for Rhinos Like Dozer

Dozer, a male black rhino, has been monitored by IRF’s partner the Lowveld Rhino Trust for 28 years. Dozer was…View Full Release »

05.13.2021

Small Programs Can Add Up To Big Success

In the early 1990s, Zimbabwean Raoul du Toit began working in the Zambezi Valley, piloting survey flights to count rhinos….View Full Release »

05.09.2021

Happy Mother’s Day: Mabuya’s Story

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors…View Full Release »

11.09.2020

Adopting the Next Generation of Black Rhinos in Zimbabwe

Black rhinos are tough. Black rhino populations declined by an estimated 98% between 1960 and 1995, with numbers bottoming out…View Full Release »

10.21.2020

Orphaned and Injured By a Poacher, Black Rhino Calf Returns to the Wild

In July 2020 on a routine patrol, monitors from the International Rhino Foundation’s (IRF) partner, the Lowveld Rhino Trust (LRT),…View Full Release »